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Books 4 months ago

PREMIUM
'Understanding Jokowi': Jean Couteau explains the great transformer

A sweeping study of Jokowi’s decade in power argues that pragmatic development, not ideology, drove Indonesia’s transformation.

Weekend Five 4 months ago

Forget beaches: Here are 5 smart books for your summer reading list

Whether you’re craving comfort, perspective or escape, these five books can accompany you over the slower rhythm of summer.

Currently Obsessed 4 months ago

There's a word for what happens to you when you become a mother

Lucy Jones's Matrescence gave me the language I didn't know I needed and an argument I didn't know I was ready to make

Books 5 months ago

PREMIUM
‘Blueprint’: Meritocracy, pressure and the making of Indonesian engineers

A narrative nonfiction account of 20 Indonesian engineers working across 120 countries reveals the reality behind meritocracy, where resilience, not reputation, determines who lasts.

Currently Obsessed 5 months ago

‘Enough’: The greenest choice in a world of more

I've spent years studying the climate crisis. It took my mother's permanent marker on a 25-year-old fridge to show me what I was missing.

Books 8 months ago

PREMIUM
‘Reflections’: A meditation on Singapore’s regional resilience

Through his collection of essays, author and professor Barry Desker shows how technocratic governance and quiet diplomacy have sustained the island state’s resilience and its enduring, often overlooked ties with Indonesia.

Currently Obsessed 9 months ago

Childfree, but not care-free: What I learned from a parenting book

A parenting book gave unexpected lessons in healing, empathy and how to show up better for the children around me and the parents doing their best.

Books 9 months ago

PREMIUM
‘The Palestine Laboratory’: How Israel turns occupation into export

Antony Loewenstein’s award-winning investigation, now in Indonesian, reveals how Israel’s technologies of control, perfected in occupied Palestine, have become profitable, “field-tested” exports shaping global surveillance and warfare.

Currently Obsessed 10 months ago

What if smart isn’t enough? Rethinking merit in a broken system

Michael J. Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? is resonating in Indonesia, where many already sense that the meritocracy system is broken.

Books 11 months ago

PREMIUM
Through Liu Kang’s lens: A time capsule of Indonesia in 1952

A rediscovered trove of photographs, sketches and letters reveals artist Liu Kang’s intimate journey through Indonesia in the 1950s, capturing a young nation in transition and the everyday lives of its people.

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